Your take on Andre Dirrell

[mickel]

I think he was ready to stay down in the Abraham fight, even if abe didn't hit him I think he was ready to claim an injured knee or leg from the slip. his fights end in controversy and he is skilled, but there is something missing in him...he hasn't finished the job in either super six fight, and quite frankly I think ward will give him a severe beating.

[Majesty]

I think he is a very talented guy but like every other fighter that's won that wasn't the favorite. Such as Ward over Kessler or him vs Abraham they get the vault of critisisms for other things.

Like Ward beat Kessler down and then accidental headbutts happened and people somehow erase the beating he was putting on Kessler before that.

Dirrell was putting a brilliant performance against Abraham a guy who everyone had made their favorite when he knocked out Jermain Taylor, he put a beating on Abraham dropping him twice, one wasn't counted and the other way around as well.

But people that picked Abraham will say he was gonna knock out Dirrell late, why? because he hit Dirrell after Dirrell slipped on the canvas so they will say that Abraham would have knocked him out eventually. When there was nothing in the fight to really show that Abraham was having any success chasing Dirrell down.

Now if we flipped the script. And Kessler who was the favorite had put a beat down on Ward before accidentally headbutting him they'd have said that Ward was already losing and has nothing to complain about because he wasn't gonna win, and that Dirrell was dirty and knew he wouldnt beat Abraham fairly so had to resort to cheating which proves he has a weak mind for boxing.


To me whenever the favorite in a fight doesn't win, credit is taken away because of an incident that takes away from their entire performance because no one wants to admit their fighter got beaten.


Even if Dirrell had never been fouled by Abraham and went on to win a decision people would still complain about his style because his decision to not get hit prevented Abraham from winning.

Andre Dirrell is very talented and his style suits him very well, so much so that people want to see him fight outside of it because when he fights that style to his best ability he is capable of outboxing anyone.

The only problem that I can really see that some fans may have is the fact he doesn't "close the show". That's the only true complaint I could see for him.